Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Four: 2nd Class Warrant Officer A. Wheeler, South African Service Corps, late South African Light Horse

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (84 Tpr., S.A. Lt. Horse); 1914-15 Star (Hd. Condr., S.A.S.C. - T. & R.); British War and Victory Medals (2nd C./W.O., S.A.S.C.), generally very fine (4) £180-220

Arthur Wheeler, who was from Poulton, near Fairford, Gloucester, and a coachman by profession, enlisted in the South African Light Horse in November 1899, aged 28 years, and was discharged at Cape Town in June 1901.